Sentence examples for refute I from inspiring English sources

While culinary observations are a highly personal matter and difficult to refute, I do disagree with the writer's opening observation "Miami International Airport is a dim, crowded, low-ceilinged affair".

For we know that different Stoic philosophers attempted to refute (I) or (II), but we do not hear of anyone questioning the truth of any other premise or the validity of the argument.

Then I told him that since I did not have access until the next morning to the files which would confirm or refute, I would call him back then and NOT to quote me.

On reflection, the reaction I was supposed to have to that was "Oh, I guess since that's an obvious lie but there's no evidence recorded in my notebook that I can use to refute it, I should pick the Doubt option," but what I actually experienced was a powerful and visceral revulsion to the interface and the idea of engaging with it for any longer.

In reality, this is a nonsense story that has been extensively refuted; I've always been struck in particular by the notion that a Congressional Democrat, holding office at a time when Republicans ruled the House with an iron fist, somehow had the mystical power to distort our whole banking system.

"I refute it thus".

I refute it unequivocally".

(Johnson, famously, kicked a stone and said, "I refute it thus").

(The story goes that Johnson announced that he refuted the idealism of the philosopher George Berkeley by going outside and kicking a stone: "I refute it thus").

Bishop Berkeley infuriated Samuel Johnson so much that Dr. Johnson kicked a stone and said, "I refute it thus".

"I REFUTE it thus," said Dr Johnson in answer to Bishop Berkeley whilst conducting a painful experiment with foot and stone.